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I believe that there is no God, but that matter is God and God is
matter; and that it is no matter whether there is any God or no.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: The Unbeliever's Creed--Connoisseur No. IX
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Nearer, my God, to Thee--
Nearer to Thee--
E'en though it be a cross
That raiseth me;
Still all my song shall be
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!
Author: Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams
Source: Nearer, my God, to Thee!, an article in "Notes and Queries" states words written by sister, Mrs. Byr
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Man thinks, God directs.
[Lat., Homo cogitat, Deu indicat.]
Author: Alcuin (Albinus)
Source: Epistles
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Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
Author: Alcuin (Albinus)
Source: Epistles
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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
Author: Alcuin (Albinus)
Source: Epistles
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Man says--"So, so."
Heaven says--"No, no."
Author: Aphorism
Source: (Chinese)
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Man proposes, and God disposes.
[It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.]
Author: Ludovico Ariosto
Source: Orlando Furioso (ch. XLVI, 35)
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God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools
Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more.
Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools
Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore.
This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules:
'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: The Divinity (st. 3)
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God is best known in not knowing him.
[Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.]
Author: Saint Aurelius Augustine
Source: De Ordine (II, 16)
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They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God
by his spirit, his is a base and ignoble creature.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Essays--Of Atheism
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Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of
Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar
with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye
ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Author: Bible
Source: Acts (ch. XVII, v. 22-23)
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But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound
the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to
confound the things which are mighty;
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath
God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought
things that are:
That no flesh should glory in his presence.
Author: Bible
Source: I Corinthians (ch. I, v. 27-29)
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I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase. So
then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that
watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Author: Bible
Source: I Corinthians (ch. III, v. 6-7)
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Honour all men. Love the brotherhood, Fear God. Honour the
king.
Author: Bible
Source: I Peter (ch. II, v. 17)
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The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth
his handywork.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XIX, v. 1)
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God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XLVI, v. 1)
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He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside
the still waters.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XXIII, v. 2)
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For there is no respect of persons with God.
Author: Bible
Source: Romans (ch. II, v. 11)
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There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Author: Bible
Source: Romans (ch. III, v. 18)
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What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can
be against us?
Author: Bible
Source: Romans (ch. VIII, v. 31)
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From thee all human actions take their springs,
The rise of empires, and the fall of kings.
Author: Samuel Boyse
Source: The Deity
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O Rock of Israel, Rock of Salvation, Rock struck and cleft for
me, let those two streams of blood and water which once gushed
out of thy side . . . bring down with them salvation and holiness
into my soul.
Author: Daniel Brevint
Source: Works (p. 17), (ed. 1679)
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He made little, too little of sacraments and priests, because God
was so intensely real to him. What should he do with lenses who
stood thus full in the torrent of the sunshine.
Author: Phillips Brooks, D.D.
Source: Sermons--The Seriousness of Life
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It never frightened a Puritan when you bade him stand still and
listen to the speech of God. His closet and his church were full
of the reverberations of the awful, gracious, beautiful voice for
which he listened.
Author: Phillips Brooks, D.D.
Source: Sermons--The Seriousness of Life
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God is like a skilful Geometrician.
Author: Sir Thomas Browne
Source: Religio Medici I (16)
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God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.
Author: Saint Augustine
Source: None
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For I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
Author: Alben W. Barkley
Source: None
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Author: G. C. Lichtenberg
Source: None
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Author: Goncourt
Source: None
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Two men please God--who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.
Author: Nikita Ivanovich Panin
Source: None
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''I do have sort of a spiritual center now that I didn't have
before,'' says Earle. ''But my spirituality is real retarded. It
basically consists of `I believe there is a God, and it ain't me.'
It's simple, but it works.''
source: Boston Globe.
Author: Steve Earle
Source: None
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I know God won't give me anything I can't handle;I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Author: Mother Teresa
Source: None
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Krishna was conceived
in the womb of Devaki
mysteriously as the sun setting
in the West imparts his rays
to the rising moon in the East.
Author: Srila Prabhupada
Source: None
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I want to go berry picking on the hogback, God.
Keep me on a short leash.
Author: Maria Sc
Source: None
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The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Source: None
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You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.
Author: Ernest Dimnet
Source: None
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An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
Source: None
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You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.
Author: Benjamin Jowett
Source: None
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I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.
Author: Edwin Arlington Robinson
Source: None
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The best way to know God is to love many things.
Author: Vincent Van Gogh
Source: None
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Author: Robert Frost
Source: None
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God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
Author: Heywood Broun
Source: None
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Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
Author: John Burroughs
Source: None
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God made the country and man made the town.
Author: William Cowper
Source: None
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God never made His work for man to mend.
Author: John Dryden
Source: None
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God is not a cosmic bell-boy for whom we can press a button to get things done.
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
Source: None
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Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
Author: Christopher Morley
Source: None
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When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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God sends us meat, the devil sends us cooks.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not.
Author: Saadi
Source: None
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